Alcoholics aren't aiming to feel better or drown their sorrows, they want to continue to feel bad for themselves
Scathing... but it makes more sense than "I am drinking to feel better", because I have never, and you reading this right now have never seen someone "feel better" about the loss of a family member or a bad break-up after drinking. At best they'll drink themselves to sleep, at worst all of their insecurities and sadness comes to the surface and they become hysterical, blubbering messes which are embarrassing to everyone in the room.
Again, at least I can understand a smack-head for using heroin to cope with abuse or loss or something- that poison at least makes you emotionally numb for a brief period. Of course, eventually they will have to face all of that pain (amplified many times over, from burying it repeatedly with chemicals) in order to actually grow as a person and not be dependent on external chemicals to make themselves feel "okay".
PROHIBITION WAS RIGHT. Come at me, you drunken losers, if you're not too hungover to form an argument. I'd rather have cocaine be legal and have cocaine stores than alcohol. Drunks are the cause of like 1/2 of the problem that happen on a daily basis.
In the news I've seen people murdered over coke, meth, heroin - never anyone murdered over booze. All of them are ruinous, but only one of them doesn't inspire its users to kill for it. Your coke stores would have modern 21st century man slicing each other throats for a $1 hit of blow.
inb4 muh Al Capone... that WOP killed for money & power, not booze.
never anyone murdered over booze
But how many crimes are committed by people while under the influence of booze? I would wager that the majority of ALL crimes, specifically felonies, are committed while the offender is under the influence of alcohol.
And the only reason people aren't murdering over booze is because it's freely available. During prohibition, people were killing the shit out of each other over booze. Accessibility is the variable that you did not take into account when you made your statement.
Again, the story of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde can simply have the "magic potion" swapped out with "a lot of booze", and the story would still make perfect sense. Doctor Jekyll, a brilliant, sensible, but timid man, pounds down several shots of his "magic potion" (whiskey) and then, Mr. Hyde reveals himself. Mr. Hyde embodies the id, all of the dark impulses that sane people are able to repress. Alcohol removes that barrier, and unleashes the id. Mr. Hyde is a rapist, thief, vandal, and IIRC he even murdered a few people- all things that doctor Jekyll never would've done if it were not for his "magic potion".
that WOP killed for money & power, not booze
Booze was one of the primary sources of their money and power, just like cocaine (and more recently, meth) is one of the primary sources of money and power for the various cartels.
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